Tarring | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
tarring and feathering
A punishment sometimes inflicted by indignantly virtuous mobs in Southern and Western States, on per...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
tarring and feathering
A punishment now obsolete, inflicted by stripping the delinquent, then smearing him with tar, coveri...

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